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After the October news that Britain had exploded her first atom bomb in the barren wastes of the Monte Bello Islands north of Australia, a proud Prime Minister declared that William George Penney, the physicist who directed the project, would be knighted as a reward. Last week, at Buckingham Palace, without waiting to include him in the usual honors list, Queen Elizabeth II made Penney a Knight Commander of the British Empire...
...then, had written the editorial? At week's end the Barnard women had only their suspicions: the Columbia men. ¶In spite of a special faculty committee's recommendation to the contrary, the board of trustees at Rutgers University ordered two professors-Historian Moses I. Finley and Physicist Simon W. Heimlich-dismissed unless they answer the questions of the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee as to whether they are or ever were members of the Communist Party. Said the trustees: "The refusal of a faculty member, on the grounds of possible selfincrimination, to answer [such] questions . . . impairs confidence...
...searching or reflective but nearly good enough to set beside Witness was Austrian Physicist Alexander Weissberg's The Accused, one of the best accounts yet of what happened to victims of the Kremlin purge in 1937. And those who still doubted the Communists' double-dealing in the Spanish Civil War could read George (Nineteen Eighty-Four) Orwell's Homage to Catalonia, posthumously published in the U.S., one of the best books yet written about that tragic episode...
...story was simple and good. Although there are a few unanswered questions why does a top nuclear physicist cooperate with a spy ring, how is the ring actually broken--it is generally absorbing. This is due in part, I suppose, to the direction of Russell Rouse, but Milland himself deserves a good deal of credit. His expressions are easy to read and to interpret, and he never drops out of character...
Though "one speaker came to apologize for biology and the other two to excuse his apologies," the two and a half hour meeting brought forth the alleged differences between the sciences. Frank pointed out that the theoretical physicist is faced with much the same sort of problem as is the biologist when the former attempts to explain complicated physical phenomena. Conant subscribed by adding that the very "success of physics was that it had by-passed the really difficult problems...